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The Gloucester County Department of Planning & Zoning will sponsor a public information meeting on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 7PM to discuss property the County has acquired, or will soon acquire, under FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). The meeting will be held at Achilles Elementary School, located at 9306 Guinea Road, Achilles, VA.
Under the terms of the HMGP, the County must have a ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Gov. Terry McAuliffe is formally rolling out his energy plan for Virginia.
Released two weeks ago, the McAuliffe energy blueprint will be presented Tuesday at the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond. The event is sponsored by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and the Virginia League of Conservation Voters.
Democrat McAuliffe embraces an “all of the above” strategy that promotes greater use of ...

Glouces­ter County res­i­dents have been issued a chal­lenge by the Parks, Recre­ation and Tourism Depart­ment along with the library to get out this month and expe­ri­ence the com­mu­nity from a dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive. They are host­ing a Com­mu­nity Ambas­sador Chal­lenge in cel­e­bra­tion of National Com­mu­nity Plan­ning Month.
The pur­pose is to get peo­ple talk­ing and engaged about the com­mu­nity, said Emily Gib­son, senior com­pre­hen­sive plan­ner. “I think ...

Thanks to a NASA grant ‚the Vir­ginia Space Grant Con­sor­tium says stu­dents of Rap­pa­han­nock and other Vir­ginia Com­mu­nity Col­lege Sys­tem mem­ber insti­tu­tions that are pur­su­ing stud­ies in sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy, engi­neer­ing or math­e­mat­ics or (STEM) fields have gained access to new schol­ar­ships, research expe­ri­ences, intern­ships, and courses.
The pro­gram, “STEM Takes Flight at Virginia’s Com­mu­nity Col­leges,” is a means of encour­ag­ing com­mu­nity col­lege stu­dents in STEM fields to per­se­vere with their stud­ies ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – The Navy is inviting the public to come aboard and tour three of its warships in Virginia.
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and the guided-missile destroyers USS Gravely and USS Gonzalez will be open to public viewing on Oct. 18.
The tours at Naval Station Norfolk are part of Fleet Week Hampton Roads.
The Navy says all guests and vehicles will be subject ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (AP) – NASA has launched a rocket for the Department of Defense from its Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.
The space agency says the Terrier-Lynx suborbital rocket was launched at 12:27 a.m. Sunday.
The next scheduled launch from Wallops will be Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket on Oct. 24. NASA says the rocket will carry Orbital’s Cyngus cargo carrier to the International Space Station. ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Tobacco-curing barns that dot the Southside Virginia countryside are among the nine historic places being recognized by the Department of Historic Resources.
Tangier Island’s role in the War of 1812 is also being honored. The historical marker will recognize Fort Albion, which was established by the British on the Chesapeake Bay island. The island was a haven for former slaves who received ...